Warren Brusstar was a football, basketball and baseball star at Napa High School. He was a lineman on the 1968 and 1969 football teams and played on the 1969-70 basketball team, while also pitching for the 1969 and 1970 baseball…
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Bill Buckner*
Bill Buckner is known throughout the country by knowledgeable baseball observers as one of the great hitters to play major league baseball. Only 44 players in the history of Major League Baseball have hit safely more times than Bill Buckner.…
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Ed Burke
Ed Burke’s greatest athletic contributions to Napa High School came in the field events of track and field competition. He competed for the Napa High School track team in 1957 and 1958, and set the state record for the discus…
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Bruce Cassayre
Bruce Cassayre competed in track, tennis and basketball at Napa High School. In 1947, on the C track team, he won the NBL shot put championship. In 1948, he repeated the feat on the B track team, setting an NBL…
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Steve Clerici
Steve Clerici was an outstanding three-sport star at Napa High. As a sophomore, he played JV football, ran track and was the sixth man on the varsity basketball team, though he is best known for his football and basketball abilities.…
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Joel Coffield*
Coffield played four years of football and three years of basketball at Napa High. He was Captain of the 1924-25 basketball team which was league champion and district champion. The only loss of the season came against Stockton in the…
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John Colledge*
John Colledge was an all time great athlete at Corning High School and Chico State College. In high school, Colledge had an incredible record as a four year star in all four major sports – football, basketball, baseball and track.…
Charles “Skip” Dresel*
Skip Dresel played baseball and basketball at Napa High School. He was a first baseman on the 1947 and 1948 baseball teams, and helped the 1948 team gain a tie for the North Bay League championship. Dresel showed promise as…
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Jim Duncan*
Jim Duncan was a basketball star who also played football and tennis at Napa High School. He played #1 singles and doubles on the 1945, ’46 and ’47 tennis teams. In 1947, Duncan and doubles partner Jack Hosburg won the…
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Jim Dykes*
Jim Dykes was an outstanding baseball and football player whose high school career was interrupted by World War II. As a freshman in 1941, Dykes started several games as a pitcher for Napa High School. He had a very strong…
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Aaron Elton*
Aaron Elton was a four-year baseball star at Napa High School. As a freshman second baseman, he led the team in hitting with a .400 average. He transferred to third base as a sophomore and hit over .400. Records were…
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Les Franco
Les Franco was the Most Valuable Player on the 1961 football team, excelling as a linebacker on defense and part-time quarterback on offense. He was also an outstanding linebacker on the 1960 team. Like his father before him, Franco was…
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Steve Galios*
Steve Galios was a three-sport, first-string athlete at Napa High. In track, he ran the 100-yard dash, 220-yard dash, 440-yard relay, and long jumped. He played two years of basketball and was a starter on the 1954-55 team. Galios played…
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John Graves*
John Graves was another three-sport athlete at Napa High, who ran the 880-yard run for the track team and played one year of B basketball and two years of varsity basketball, culminating his career by leading the 1939-40 team in…
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Sheri Jennum
Sheri Jennum had a great three-sport career at Napa High from 1977 to 1981. As a freshman, she played basketball and made honorable mention on the SCAL All-League team. She was also a member of the SCAL championship softball team.…
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Ches Johnson*
Ches Johnson was a standout basketball, football and track athlete in the early 1930s. Track information for the period is very sketchy, but Coach Walter Hemmerling called Johnson the most promising candidate on the 1934 track squad, where he competed…
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Tish Johnson
Tish Johnson was an outstanding athlete at Napa High School and has gone on to gain national recognition as one of the top performers on the Women’s Professional Bowlers Tour. Johnson played volleyball at Napa, but the Committee had no…
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Mike Kroplin
Mike Kroplin is an outstanding member of the second generation of the Kroplin family to star at Napa High School. He was a three-sport star in baseball, basketball and football. As a junior, he was chosen the outstanding junior athlete…
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Tom LeMasters
Tom LeMasters was another three-sport star at Napa High. As a sophomore, he played JV basketball and baseball, but as a junior and senior, LeMasters was a starter in football, basketball and baseball. As a junior, he was named to…
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Jeff Loudon
Jeff Loudon was an outstanding football and basketball player at Napa High. He helped pace the 1959 football team to the first undefeated, untied season in the school’s history. As a defensive back, he intercepted three passes in one game.…
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Mark Lye
Mark Lye is the best golfer to play at Napa High. While a player for the Napa team from 1968-1970, he never lost a match. He was named Athlete of the Year in 1970. Lye earned a golf scholarship to…
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Hector MacLean*
Hector MacLean was a three-sport star of Napa High, excelling in football, basketball and track. Although information is unavailable regarding his track accomplishments, he was a starter and outstanding player on the 1924-25 and 1925-26 basketball teams, both of which…
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Ed McCrea*
Ed McCrea never weighed over 145 pounds during his high school career, yet he was a track man, a baseball player, a football player and one of the best basketball players to wear Napa colors during the first 50 years…
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Sherman Miller*
Sherman Miller is the greatest runner ever to graduate from Napa High School. As a junior, Miller was ineligible to compete for Napa High, so he ran for the Olympic Club in San Francisco, and competed in open meets all…
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Carole Nelson Cammorata*
Carole Nelson-Cammorata is selected into a special category in the Napa High School Athletic Hall of Fame. She didn’t excel in interscholastic competition while in high school for the basic reason that there was no such competition for women at…
Russ Schamun
Russ Schamun was the receiving end of one of the most dramatic passing combinations to grace Napa High School. His late game catches and runs for touchdowns to win ball games were highlights of the Bruce Tonascia-Russ Schamun era. As…
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Mel Stein*
Mel Stein was another three-sport player at Napa High School. As a B basketball player on the 1942-43 team, he was part of one of the great comebacks in Napa history when the Indians outscored Vallejo 20-0 in the fourth…
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Ernie Thormahlen*
Ernie Thormahlen was a three-sport star at Napa High from 1934 to 1937. His track exploits included participation in the 440-yard dash, 880-yard run and football throw. He was Captain of the 1936 track team. In three years of varsity…
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Bruce Tonascia
Bruce Tonascia was the quarterback who teamed with Russ Schamun for late game heroics in the 1971 football season. He was also an outstanding baseball player for Napa High. As a sophomore, Tonascia led the JV football team to a…
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Gene Tonascia*
Gene Tonascia was a three-sport star at Napa High School. As a freshman, he played C basketball; as a sophomore, B basketball and B football, and as a junior and senior he played varsity basketball and football. In addition, he…
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Charles “Bud” Townsend*
Bud Townsend was a four-sport athlete at Napa High School, competing in football, basketball, baseball and track. He played on B football, basketball and track teams as a freshman and moved up to the varsity teams as a sophomore. He…
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Don Townsend*
Don Townsend used his left arm to carve out an enviable record in three sports at Napa High and beyond. As a reserve forward on the 1945-46 basketball team, Townsend’s left hand set shot beat Santa Rosa in overtime and…
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Eric Tye
Eric Tye played three years of football and baseball at Napa High. He played on junior varsity teams as a sophomore and starred on the varsity teams in his junior and senior years. He was All-NBL honorable mention in 1973…
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Paul Vallerga
Paul Vallerga was a three-sport star at Napa High School in track, basketball and football. He was a starter for one of the best basketball teams in Napa High’s history in 1964 when they won the league championship and lost…
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Stewart Walkenhorst
Stewart Walkenhorst is the tallest player to star for any Napa High basketball team. His size, combined with his great shooting touch, made him a significant scoring threat in any game. He played three years at Napa. In his junior…
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George White*
George White was a three-sport athlete at Napa High who greatly contributed to championship football and baseball teams during his career. White was a starting guard on the 1964-65 and 1965-66 basketball teams. He was a shortstop and pitcher on…